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When (if ever) is it good to speak up if a coworker just sits watching videos all day?
At my job some days I would work out of a room with only one other person in it. 95% of the time he would just sit at his desk watching YouTube videos of World of Warcraft. He wasn't management but he ...
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How can I state to junior engineers to not work a ticket unless he / she can own the task without demoralizing?
I am a manager in the cybersecurity division where I work. I have been a manager for the past five years and am well respected in the division.
Our team is responsible for security engineering and ...
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Does occupational / workplace psychology have a name for local managers using the "Barnum Effect"
The Barnum effect is when astrologers, tarot readers etc statements about your personality or your future that you think is specific to you but in fact are very general and apply to almost anyone just ...
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How to manage repetitive no-work or no progress with some of your teammates or employee? [closed]
Here are a couple of things about myself:
I'm a co-founder and joined the start-up after 1 year.
I have real SWE, Architecture and management experience in many other start-ups in Silicon Valley.
I ...
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How can I learn to lead at the client as a mid-level software developer in the workplace?
I was externally hired by a company to help them with software development. All people at the client are software developers too. I was asked to lead them, but I don't know how. I'm quite introverted, ...
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How many project managers does a startup need?
I've worked at 3 separate startups, most had 1 - 2 PMs, usually roughly 1 PM per 3-5 developers. My current position is similar, there are 4 teams of 2-3 devs, each with their own PM.
My friend's ...
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Moving all Designers to a single team
I've just joined a SaaS company as Head of Design in which I'm leading a team of Product Designers. I learned after a couple weeks that there are also designers under the Marketing team who seem to be ...
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How do you comeup with multiple teams where work in interlaced and all deliver the same Single UI project
I currently hold a team of 17 all of whom work on delivering single product --Admin UI. The problem with such a big team is Grooming, Standups, dividing works, scaling new team members, handling ...
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How do you handle colleagues who constantly give you resistance?
I work as a full stack developer in a team of 7 developers. I like to receive the constructive criticism as well as give it when needed.
I love to review PRs and strive to maintain high coding ...
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Team building in the post-COVID-19 era
I am not sure whether I should call now (July 2021) the "post-COVID-19 era", but let me just use that in my question. About team building I don't mean those "fancy" outdoor ...
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Transitioning from a semi-autonomous role to a heavily managed role
I've been working as a data scientist/analyst at my current company for close to four years now. My former manager (call him Dinesh) left at the end of last year and since then, his manager (call him ...
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Helping a team member to ramp-up
I work in a startup of 9 people.
It is my first position as a lead developer.
I have started to build my team 9 months ago, we were two for many months and due to a tight deadline we have hired two ...
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New Employee with Challenging Team Dynamics
I started a new position on March 1, and while it is in a field that I absolutely love, I am challenged by unclear direction, new expectations and interesting team dynamics.
Our manager is very "...
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Is there a well established name/title for a role taking the technical and product ownership together in the software industry? [closed]
It has happened several times that I needed to spend quite some time and effort to explain my role as a manager that manages a team around 10 people. My team builds a webapp for outside customers. My ...
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Extend current tool stack of data science team
I recently started to lead a data science focused company with two departments that has uses SPSS Modeler extensively. To be honest nobody there has close to the skills of a data scientist. My ...
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